Kathmandu, Jan. 13 -- A government-formed panel of experts has recommended halting affiliations to private and community colleges until federal and provincial university Acts are in place.

The panel led by Dev Raj Adhikari, member-secretary at the University Grants Commission, a government entity overseeing university education, has recommended formulation of laws on time for demarcating the jurisdictions of provincial and federal governments on university education.

According to Schedule 9 of the Constitution of Nepal, university education comes under the jurisdiction of the federal and provincial governments.

With the federal parliament yet to introduce an umbrella law on university education, provinces too are yet to pass their laws...